How to watch: Netflix Starring: Vic Chao, Mike Colter, Jonny Cruz, Aislinn Derbez, Angélica Vale, Danny Drejo Runtime: 8 episodes Language: English Creators: Brad Graeber, Álvaro Rodriguez Director: Willis Bulliner Writers: Álvaro Rodríguez, Daniel Dominguez Rating: 16+ Release date: October 3, 2019 Style: Anime, Fantasy, Action, Martial Arts For more details, you [Read More]
How to watch: Netflix # of episodes: Season 1: 13 (no info on a second season) Language: Thai (subtitles available) Director: Nontakorn Taweesuk Writer: Nontakorn Taweesuk Rating: 16+ Release date: September 1, 2018 (USA) Style: Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial Arts, Muay Thai For more show details, you can find them on IMDB [Read More]
Title: Climbing The Mountain: The Essence of Qi Gong & Martial Arts Author: Jonathan Snowiss Publisher: Xlibris Corporaion Publish Date: July 15, 2010 Format: Digital, Paperback, Hardcover Pages: 184 Cover Price: $8.99 There are many areas on martial arts with complex concepts and facets. Climbing the Mountain is a book about [Read More]
Title: Step on the Mat: Life Lessons of the Ninja Author: Ninja Nguyen Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing Publish Date: May 17, 2019 Format: Paperback Pages: 222 Cover Price: $15.99 The subject of martial arts is a big one when it comes to books. In fact more of a big set of [Read More]
Title: The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts Author: Issai Chozanshi and Sean Michael Wilson, translated by William Scott Wilson Publisher: Shambhala Publications Publish Date: 2013 Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Cover Price: $14.95 Issai Chozanshi (1659–1741), the author of The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts was of the samurai caste. Although he denied having [Read More]
Voting for Ip Man vs. Fearless will close on June 7th at 6 pm EDT. The Father of Moden Wing Chun vs the Father of the Jing Wu We’re at the semifinals of this tournament. We’ve seen Ip Man fight himself in the previous stage. Now it’s time to face [Read More]
Voting will close on 05/12/2019 at 6 pm EDT. The Sequel Versus The One That Started It All The first Ip Man movie was a breath of fresh air, started a trend of Ip Man related movies, and gave Donnie Yen’s career a big push. It was an odd choice at [Read More]
This review is spoiler-free!! How to watch: Netflix (at the time the article was written) Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, Hwang Jang-lee Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes Language: Cantonese (dubs and subtitles available in English and other languages) Director: Yuen Woo-ping Writers: Siao Lung, Ng See-yuen Rating: 13+ Release date: October [Read More]
Three-section staff and other possible Chinese cousins to the nunchuck This March is Nunchuck Month at Martial Journal so I wanted to add my two pennies to the subject. Earlier this month Jaredd talked about the history of the nunchaku. In his article Jaredd mentions a Chinese version of the [Read More]
Kenji I’m going to talk about a little-known manga (Japanese comic book) called Kenji that I discovered a couple of years ago. It quickly became my favourite martial arts manga ever and one of my top 5 shonen (series marketed to a younger male audience). It’s a martial arts adventure [Read More]
If you’re into Japanese martial arts you’ve definitely heard of Ellis Amdur, maybe even read some of his books. In case you haven’t, he’s written some of my favorite books on the subject (and I don’t actually train JMA) which you can check out here. Suffice it to say he [Read More]
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